Re: Halo News and Discussion

Great topic vod. I am a big Halo fan, too. I have read all the other Halo books and I'm looking forward to the 6th. Also, I am trying to beat Halo 3 on Legendary, but after 5 levels it wouldn't give me any gamerscore. And then my 360 got the red ring of death. So I called my friend, I was like "You should bring your 360 over," and he said "It got the red ring yesterday". Anyway, I'm not happy with Microsoft right now.

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The Mythic Map Pack will be released along side the Halo Wars LE. Bungie released some new screenshots of two maps, Orbital (awesome looking map, in my opinion) and Assembly. Check them out Here. Orbital is a human style, very modern, very military, very Bad*** looking map, and Assembly just happens to be a Scarab manufacturing plant. Check it out.

Halo 3: Recon has had a name change to Halo 3: ODST. Bungie explained the change was to better reflect the game experience. Trailer, still with "Recon" tag line, is available here. Watch in high quality.

Also, the game will be released Q3 2009, is disk-based, and has 1000GS.

Re: Halo News and Discussion

Probably. Apparently, Bungie has them done, and they've all been done, for a while, but Microsoft or someone VERY high up at Bungie, most likely Microsoft, is controlling their release.

I believe there will be a further addition of achievements around ODST's release, due to the fact that Recon is related to Vidmaster Achievements, and those are tied, in part, to the Mythic Maps. So, theoretically, you could get it sooner, unless more Achievements are added. I believe there will be more maps that will correspond with ODST's release.

And yeah, even with a person to play with, my Legendary run took a while, especially on few parts--part of Crows Nest, Part of Tsavo Highway, a lot of Cortana, parts of Halo, Sierra 117, etc. It wasn't easy, even with my little brother.

Re: Halo News and Discussion

Probably. Apparently, Bungie has them done, and they've all been done, for a while, but Microsoft or someone VERY high up at Bungie, most likely Microsoft, is controlling their release.

I believe there will be a further addition of achievements around ODST's release, due to the fact that Recon is related to Vidmaster Achievements, and those are tied, in part, to the Mythic Maps. So, theoretically, you could get it sooner, unless more Achievements are added. I believe there will be more maps that will correspond with ODST's release.

And yeah, even with a person to play with, my Legendary run took a while, especially on few parts--part of Crows Nest, Part of Tsavo Highway, a lot of Cortana, parts of Halo, Sierra 117, etc. It wasn't easy, even with my little brother.

Ugh. I hated Cortana. The worst level in the entire game.

Anyone else here play grifball? My hardcore Halo 3 player friend hates it but I think it's a blast. Come on Catch the disease! It's contagious!

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I have, I just hate hammers (they're based on luck and connection), and much prefer swords. Takes more skill. So I prefer football--similar, but wider bomb plant, no advantage to bomb carrier, and swords only. A Foundry version, made using the newest Griffball map, as well as a gametype, is in my file share actually.

Contana was....annoying, but interesting. I'd like to play through on easy, to look around at everything. Its a well designed level, just a pain.

Not a update, but here's something for lover's of Halo's Campaign and Story: Ascendant Justice, a blog dedicated to a better understanding of all things Halo. He has done detailed walkthroughs and analysis's of each level of Halo through, with features like tie-ins to the previous games, previous levels, characters and more.

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* The Recording light was turned on outside of the Ivory Tower today as the final dialog recording for ODST gets underway.* The once-discussed Tchou-shader is being beaten into submission by Bertone, Justin and the same-named creator.* Jay and the audio team cut up and mixed a mountain of audio over the break.* Spaces with fake names finding resting places.* Lars is scheming, designing, and implementing things to achieve.

The latter clearly refers to achievements being added. Apparently, a LOT of dialog has been added since their December mass play-through, where they said a lot of dialog was improved by staff members, mainly Joe Staten (Bungie writer, author of Contact Harvest, chief voice actor for grunts).

There is also a new podcast available on itunes, I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but when I do I'll share anything important.

And Halo 3 and Halo 2 took most played titles played this year, for their respective consoles.

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Questions about Mythic Maps answered, confirming that while the Mythic Maps (Assemble, Orbital, and the yet to be truly shown Sandbox) will come with the LE version of Halo Wars, they won't be released on the Marketplace immediately.

The Bungie net Render-to-video feature is currently in in-house beta testing.

Lars Bakken, ODST Designer, shares on Bungie's in-house playthrough of ODST, and is joined by Shiska with his own views.